The Fluidity of Desire: ‘La belle année’ by Angelica Ruffier
ROTTERDAM 2026: This graceful documentary self-investigation uncovers all that remains in the home of her late father, including her now 20-year-old desire for her childhood teacher.
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‘You have to be able to handle the normality that comes after a dream’: Victoria Verseau on ‘Trans Memoria’
TROMSØ 2025: In this wide-ranging conversation, the writer-director speaks on her relationship to documentary/fiction, the importance of the mystified world, and creating films about the trans experience that aren’t exclusively uplifting.
There is Hope, I Think: ‘Trans Memoria’ (2024) by Victoria Verseau
TROMSØ 2025: The Swedish filmmaker offers a raw and personal collage of her medical transition by returning to the treatment centre where her gender-affirming surgery took place in 2012, accompanied by others preparing to do the same.
Purple Hour’s Top Films of 2024 Featuring LGBTQIA+ Narratives
Diverse in style, genre, mode of storytelling, country of origin, and so much more, here are our picks for 2024’s best films from a queer lens and canted angle.